Because we gather information about the customers of GotData.com and the GotData
network of sites (including but not
limited to http://www.gotdata.com/, secure.gotdata.com, www.gotcourier.com, www.gotdentists.com, www.gotclients.com and www.interon1.com), we feel
you should fully understand the terms and conditions
surrounding the capture and use of that information.
Information GotData gathers and tracks
GotData.com
gathers two types of information about users: 1) Data that
users provide through optional, voluntary registration on
several of our sites, and 2) aggregated tracking information
derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites.
Such information enables us to better tailor our content to
readers' needs and help our advertisers better understand the
demographics of our audience. Because GotData derives a portion of its revenue from advertising,
providing such aggregated demographic data is essential in
order to keep some of our services free to users.
GotData.com and GotData does not provide
this information to any other third parties under any
circumstances.
Questions regarding this statement should be directed here.
Electronic Newsletters
GotData.com offers free
electronic newsletters to users. GotData
gathers the e-mail addresses of users who voluntarily
subscribe. Customers may remove themselves from any mailing
list by following the instructions contained in every
newsletter. They can also subscribe to the newsletters at the
time of registration.
Surveys
GotData.com occasionally conducts customer
surveys to better target our content and product inventory to
our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic
information in these surveys with our advertisers and
partners. We never share any information about specific
individuals with any third party, except as noted previously.
Contests and sweepstakes
GotData.com offers contests
and sweepstakes in which we request certain personal
information. These contests and sweepstakes are conducted in
full accordance with United States federal and
state laws. The full rules and all information about such
contests are clearly posted during such events. Information
gathered is used only to verify user identity and to contact
winners and/or prize recipients, except when specifically
noted otherwise. Again, we do not share information about
specific individuals with any third party, except as noted
previously.
Usage tracking
GotData.com tracks user traffic
patterns throughout GotData.com and this information is
correlated with data about individual users. Overall usage
statistics, according to a user's domain name, browser type
and MIME type gotten by reading this information from the
browser string (information contained in every user's
browser), are also broken down.
GotData.com also tracks and catalogs the search terms that
customers enter into our search tools, but this tracking is
never associated with individual users.
Cookies
A cookie is a small data file that certain Web
sites write to your hard drive when you visit them. A cookie
file can contain information such including a user ID that the
site uses to track the pages you've visited. But the only
personal information a cookie can contain is information you
supply yourself. A cookie can't read data off your hard disk
or read cookie files created by other sites. GotData.com uses
cookies to track the items you add to your shopping cart and
to enforce security rules regarding software that you
download or services and products that you pay for online.
If you've set your browser to warn you before accepting
cookies, you will receive the warning message with each
cookie.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser.
However, you need to have cookies turned on to purchase
software, design services, domain names and hosting packages through secure.gotdata.com.
Use of the information
GotData.com uses any information
voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in
our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or
personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future
content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, GotData uses
information that users voluntarily provide in order to send
out electronic newsletters and enable users to participate in
polls and message boards. We send out newsletters to
subscribers on a regular schedule (monthly or quarterly, depending
on the newsletter) and occasionally send out special editions
when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in
something we are doing. GotData never
shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties,
including advertisers or partners.
We use tracking information to determine which areas of our
sites users like and don't like based on traffic to those
areas. GotData does not track what
individual users read, but rather how well each page performs
overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for
you.
We track search terms entered in our search function as one
of many measures of what interests our users. But we don't
track which terms a particular user enters.
GotData.com creates aggregate reports
on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers and
partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more
effectively and allows our users to receive advertisements
that are pertinent to their needs. GotData
never shares individual personal information with anyone, so
an advertiser will never know that a specific user clicked
their ad.
GotData uses the above-described information to tailor our
content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better
understand our audience demographics. We do not share
information about individual users with any third party, with
the exceptions noted previously.
Opt-Out Policy
GotData.com gives users options wherever necessary and
practical, such choices include:
- Opting not to receive our electronic newsletters when
registering for a site
- Opting not to provide certain personal information when
registering for a site or service
- Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas,
which completely alleviates the need for any information
from our users
Unsubscribe Policy
Users may unsubscribe to any of our electronic newsletters
at any time by following the instructions contained at the end
of each newsletter.
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